An original limited edition bronze sculpture titled “Soft Self Portrait”, signed bronze sculpture by Castano entitled \”SOFT SELF PORTRAIT WITH FRIED BACON\” (1941) inspired by Salvador Dali. Dali painted this self-portrait during his eight-year-exile in the United States, where he had fled from the Spanish civil war. The sometimes childlike enthusiasm and the drive of the American society appealed to Dali and he had a most productive period there. Under this influence he appeared to reverse his “paranoid-critical” method. Now he painted more from the inside out, as his comment on his self-portrait indicates. Dali himself styles his self-portrait as “an anti-psychological self-portrait, instead of painting the soul, or the inner of oneself, to paint solely the appearance, the cover, my soul’s glove. This glove of my soul can be eaten and is even a little sharp, like highbred game; therefor ants appear together with the fried bacon. As the most generous of all painters I continuously offer myself as food and thus give our era the most delicious delicacies”. This bronze masterpiece has been created by Guillermo Castano using the Lost Wax Casting method in which a bronze sculpture is cast from an original wax mold. This limited edition bronze sculpture of Dali’s Soft Self Prortrait…. is mounted on a fine “oreo” marble base, numbered and limited to 100 editions bearing the artist’s signature. Please click on the thumbnail images to see additional views of this stunning artwork. Dimensions: 19″H x 11″L x 10″W. – measurements include marble base. Be one of the first to make an investment in modern art and acquire a low numbered edition at this incredibly low price!
